Eduardo Herrera

Rutgers University

Eduardo Herrera

A musicologist specialized in Latin America, Eduardo Herrera is Assistant Professor in Music History and Ethnomusicology at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey. His research interests include Argentine and Uruguayan avant-garde music, soccer chants as participatory music making, and music and postcoloniality. Herrera is currently working on a book titled Elite Art Worlds: Philanthropy, Latin Americanism, and Avant-Garde Music, and an edited collection, in collaboration with Alejandro Madrid and Ana Alonso-Minutti, titled Experimentalisms in Practice: Music Perspectives from Latin America (Oxford University Press, forthcoming).

March 22–26: Attending the annual meeting of the Society for American Music in Montreal. Participating in "Defining Experimentalism: A Roundtable Discussion," and the "Decolonizing 'American' Musicology" event. Organizer of a celebration honoring composer Alcides Lanza (Argentina-Canada, b.1929).

April 10: Invited speaker at Cornell University on soccer chants, heteronormativity and participatory sounding-in-synchrony.

Academic Positions

Present2013

Assistant Professor

Rutgers University, Mason Gross School of the Arts, Music Department

Spring2012

Adjunct Lecturer

University of Cincinnati, College-Conservatory of Music

20132010

Adjunct Instructor

University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies

20102006

Graduate Teaching Assistant

University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies

20062002

Graduate Teaching Assistant

University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, School of Music

20011999

Visiting Lecturer

Universidad Javeriana (Bogotá, Colombia), College of Arts and College of Media and Communication

Education

Ph.D.2013

Ph.D. in Musicology/Ethnomusicology

University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign

M.M.2004

Master of Music in Music Theory

University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign

B.M.2002

Bachelor of Music, Music History

Universidad Javeriana (Bogotá, Colombia)

Honors, Awards and Grants

Fall 2016

Research Council Grant Award, Rutgers University

Grant to support research on soccer chants as participatory music making in Argentine stadiums during Fall 2016.

Fall 2016

Small Grant Fund. Center for Latin American Studies (CLAS), School of Arts and Sciences, Rutgers University

Grant to support research on soccer chants as participatory music making in Argentine stadiums during Fall 2016.

2016

Nominated to Rutgers Career Mentor of the Year, University Career Services, Rutgers University

Nomination by graduate students.

Summer 2012

Faculty Travel Award, Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, University of Illinois

Provided funding to cover travel expenses to Venezuela to participate in the XVII Latin-American Music Festival of Caracas and IV Congress of Musical Composition.

Summer 2011

Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) Internal Research Grantt, University of Victoria

Provided funding for research on the improvisatory practices of musicians in Buenos Aires during the 1960s with co-principal investigator Dr. Jonathan Goldman, Assistant Professor of Musicology at the School of Music of the University of Victoria

Spring 2011

Travel Award, Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, University of Illinois

Provided funding to cover travel expenses to Argentina for dissertation work. Complements an invitation by the Secretaria de Cultura de la Nación of Argentina to participate as musicologist in the international festival, La Música en el Di Tella, el nacimiento de la modernidad, a gathering of composers and scholars to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Centro Latinoamericano de Altos Estudios Musicales.

2008–2009

Fellow for the Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities

Program established in 1997 to promote interdisciplinary study in the humanities, arts, and social sciences at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, granting fellowships to University of Illinois faculty and graduate students, who work together in a year-long symposia on thematic topics. IPRH

April 2008

Campus Wide Instructional Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching, University of Illinois

Award nomination made by college of Liberal Arts and Sciences among top ranking teaching assistants.

February 2008

Instructional Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, University of Illinois

Award nomination made by students and supported by mandatory, anonymous end-of-semester evaluations through the Instructor and Course Evaluation System

Fall 2007

University of Illinois' Graduate College Dissertation Travel Grant

Provided support, on a competitive basis, to subsidize travel to New York and Basel (Switzerland) for doctoral dissertation research.